On 9/11, I was on a flight from Madrid, Spain to Washington, DC. I had been on a just-pre-marriage trip with a friend. We were halfway across the Atlantic when I noticed that the little plane icon on the seat TV had turned around, and was heading the wrong way. 1/
Doctor tries to kill baby in the womb.
Doctor fails. Baby survives and is born alive.
Should it be legal to just let that baby lay on a table until she dies?
41 Democratic Party senators just said "Yes." That's abhorrent.
Like so many others, she lost friends and colleagues that day. I don't know that any of us have yet gotten hold of the emotional toll that day, that week, took on all of us. It shaped us, probably in ways we'll never quite understand. 16/16.
I'll never forget seeing the flags of Spain and Madrid flying at half mast, honoring those who died on that day. It was a massive moment for me. Maturing. Seasoning. Teaching me about the brevity of life and the sovereignty of God. 14/
Dear
@GOP
, I've said for years that I won't vote for any politician, or support any party, that doesn't stand fully against abortion from conception until birth.
That's not going to change in 2024.
How many voters like me are you comfortable losing?
Dear Bible translations, you will win my heart forever by showing, in the text, all the places where the "you's" are plural.
"Do y'all not know that y'all are God's temple, and that God's Spirit dwells in y'all?"
Makes a difference, don't it?
#2ndPersonPluralFTW
I've said it before, but I think this is the most fascinating account on Twitter. Literally every post, I find myself staring at for minutes. Just extraordinary.
You won't find many original colour shots of people born in the 1840s, so this early colour photograph from 1903 is remarkable. It shows Rear Admiral William Acland (1847-1924) & was taken by his sister Sarah 117 years ago using the Sanger Shepherd process. (It's not colourised)
Meanwhile, my fiancee was living less than a mile from the Pentagon. She heard the explosion, smelled the acrid smoke, ducked at the sonic booms of the fighter jets. It was terrifying for her, and she still cries...every single September 11. 15/
Shoutout to this truly woke pastor for calling out Planned Parenthood's racist roots. 👏👏
During this
#BlackHistoryMonth
, we must recognize that if we don't shut down the abortion industry, there will be no black future.
A few minutes later, we landed in Madrid. Spend a week there before we could get home, mostly reading articles in internet cafes and watching as Spaniards greeted us, once they realized we were Americans, with "Lo siento, lo siento." 13/
Then 10,050.
10,020.
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9,995.
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9,600.
Over and over, the pilot bounced the plan up and down, up and down, just like the guy said he would. 12/
"When the plane goes below a certain line...that's it. So watch. As we approach the coast , while we're still over the ocean, the pilot is going to bounce the plane."
"Why?"
"Because if there's a bomb, he wants it to go off over the ocean, and not a populated area." 9/
So let me get this straight. UK officials ordered this little boy off his respirator, after which he was supposed to die. But he didn't. He lived and breathed--on his own--for now 24 hours. So the next move is that UK officials have ordered that he be starved to death.
"Correction," he said, "two planes have collided *into* the WTC." Then, a few minutes later, "The Pentagon in Washington has exploded." And "The State Department has exploded." And finally, "PITTSBURGH has exploded." (I assume this was what he knew about Flight 93.) 5/
...the altimeter (yes, we could watch every second of this; the pilot never turned off the flight tracker!) dropped just below 20k ft, and then bounced back up to 21k. Then 14,990 ft. then back up to 15.5k, then 11,990 and back up to 13k. Then 10,100ft.... 11/
Over the next few minutes, he explained that he was some sort of CIA terrorist threat analyst. "I guarantee this is an attack," he said. "And I'm going to need your help." In a series of announcements, in his broken English, the pilot continued to tried to give us news. 4/
I didn't think anything of it. Computer glitch, of course. But a few minutes later the pilot, who spoke Spanish, told us in broken English that we were returning Madrid because "two planes have collided above the WTC and American air space is closed." 2/
This is everything, literally everything, I am working *against* every day of my life as a pastor. Until my last breath, I will work, preach, pray, and fight against this.
This seemed strange--why close DC airspace, much less *American* airspace--over an accidental collision of (I assumed) two small airplanes somewhere over Manhattan? Suddenly, the passenger sitting behind us sat forward and said, "You guys Americans?" 3/
You can imagine the confusion. It sounded like bombs or something were going off over the entire Eastern seaboard. Nuclear war? To make it worse, the pilot had turned off the "airphones" that were on the back of every seat at the time. 6/
At this point, words were said. We were still an hour off the coast, with really nothing to do but wait. And the little plane-icon on the flight map was getting closer and closer to the coast of Spain. When we got, oh I don't know, a hundred miles off, sure enough... 10/
As the hours went on and we headed back toward Spain, the CIA agent said, "Look. This plane is headed to Washington, DC. It's at least as likely as not that there's a bomb on board, and the pilot knows it. Now, there are basically two ways to trigger a bomb..." 7/
"One is timing. Set it to explode as we approach DC. Well, we turned around just before halfway through the flight, so if it's time-triggered, we should have about 20 minutes when we land in Madrid before it goes off. The second way, though, is altitude...." 8/
Dear friends, the Pope is just a man. He can't forgive sins,
#coronavirus
or no. Only God can do that. Trust in Jesus to save you, and He will. Right now.
📹VIDEO: This is the exact moment when
#PopeFrancis
historically imparted the extraordinary
#UrbietOrbi
blessing on the city and world, allowing us to obtain a plenary indulgence in the midst of the
#coronavirus
pandemic.
#PrayTogether
This will surprise absolutely no one, but I'll be voting this afternoon for
@albertmohler
to be President of the
#SBC21
#SBC2021
. He's man of conviction and integrity, and he has the skill to lead this convention through some troubled waters. He's also a dear brother.
You've been kidnapped. Your kidnappers allow you to keep tweeting to pretend everything is alright. What would you tweet that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?
"And then I put in the exact amount of garlic the recipe called for."
@jasonhaggard
Ha. Good q. I kinda dropped that part. He wanted to dump the plane's luggage, in case there was a bomb in it, and wanted our help throwing it all out. The pilot wouldn't allow it. CIA guy was *not* happy about that, but there wasn't anything he could do.
So in the most famous room of the Vatican, the very room where they elect the popes, I explained the heretical Protestant gospel to this man using Michaelangelo's 500 year old frescoes as a tract!! 😂 2/2
8 years ago, as I was preaching this passage from Rev 6-8, there was this in my notes: "So friends, pray! Pray more, pray big, pray royally! Pray for faithfulness for your brothers and sisters in the workplace. PRAY FOR EMW ABORTION CLINIC IN LOUISVILLE TO CLOSE!"
Amen and amen.
I've written a new book on Christian assurance, and it released today. Main goal: Destroy self-confidence, grow Christ-confidence. I hope it's helpful, comforting, challenging, enlightening.
Get
#Assured
here:
True story....That's actually MY handwriting, from like 2001!! 🤦♂️ I was an intern, and Mark made me read like 100 bad books. Clearly I was just DONE by the time I read this one. 🤣
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@GovAndyBeshear
just want to say you're doing great work. This is a crazy situation, and I'm sure you're facing a hundred hard decisions an hour with a hundred different recommendations on each. You're serving us well, man. Praying for you. We're behind you.
Presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders just voted "NO" on a bill that would have required clinics to provide medical care to infants born alive after a failed abortion.
Sunday morning, 10am.
"Christian" radio station: "Weekends are great for sleeping in and staying at home. Thanks for staying at home and enjoying your weekend with us!"
😐🤦♂️
And what's more, Italy would pay for it all. Wouldn't cost the UK a dime. But of course the *chance* that the little boy might show some improvement in Italy would embarrass UK officials, so no way. The boy has to die to protect their pride.
Surely I'm missing something here.
So my kids are starting school tomorrow, and my wife's full-time in nursing school. So I say, "You know what? I'll start taking care of dinner each night."
How'd that go on night 1?
Well...let's just say that half an hour later, the fire department was pulling up to my house.🤦♂️
"Repeal protections for surviving babies."
So if you fail at your first attempt to kill a baby in the womb, New York now gives you to right to finish him off after he's born.
And you applaud. And cheer. And celebrate.
So does Hell.
This is the sound from the NY Senate chamber after the 38-24 vote to:
- Add abortion to the NY Constitution
- Allow non-physicians to commit abortions
- Allow abortion through third trimester
- Repeal protections for surviving babies
Pure evil.
Three years ago, my family and I found my grandfathers' WWII airfields. It was one of the most profoundly moving moments of my life.
I love this picture. Two of my grandfathers' grandchildren dancing on that runway, not a care in the world.
Because of what they did there.
CHRISTIANITY: Belief that one God created a universe 13.79 billion yrs old, 93 billion light yrs in diameter (1 light yr = approx. 6 trillion miles), consisting of over 200 billion galaxies, each containing ave. of 200 billion stars, only to have a personal relationship with you.
Highlander senior Justin Gilbert scored 46 last night in the 68-60 loss to KCD. We are so proud of our team for never giving up and playing hard until the final horn. Thank you to KCD and their A.D. Tim Green for being great host.
Excited to announce that Brandon Shafer
@bjshafer
was elected Associate Pastor of Discipleship this evening at
@ThirdAvenueBapt
! Congrats, brother, and may our Lord richly bless your ministry!
Today is, really, the starting gun of the pro-life movement. We've been waiting 50 years for this. Now it's time to make abortion unthinkable.
#roeoverturned
#DobbsvJackson
This line of thinking, from
@nytimes
, is just mind-blowingly stupid. Adoption is "infinitely more dangerous and traumatic" than just killing the child. Whaaa?
More than anything at
#T4G20
so far,
@MerkerMatt
's breakout has broken my heart with sadness that we're not together this week.
And even more with longing to gather again with
@ThirdAvenueBapt
.
Traveling with my 11-year old son. Just got an upgrade to First Class on
@united
, but there was only one seat. He won paper-rock-scissors fair and square, so he's living the high life while I sit in economy. Big day for the kid. 😂
Me: *tells my 16-year-old "no" to something he really, really wants.*
My son: "Well, I don't like it. But I will respect it."
omg I love this kid so much 💯💯😢
Dropping my kid off at college today and I really need google photos to stop with the whole "hey here's another photo from 10 years ago that's probably gonna make you cry" thing. Just for today, pls k thanks
Overheard a college student today say: "Yeah, but work stress is way different from school stress. You get to leave work stress at 5pm. School stress is with you all the time! "
Me:
BREAKING: The Senate has voted down Senator Sasse's extremist, anti-science bill that attempted to inflict medically unnecessary restrictions on clinics, spread dangerous anti-choice lies, and threaten healthcare providers with jail time.
#ProtectProviders
Meanwhile, Italy has declared him a citizen and sent a helicopter to evacuate him to Rome for treatment, but UK officials have refused and posted guards at the hospital door while they wait for him to die, now just as likely from starvation as from anything else.
I've written a new book on Christian assurance, releasing on March 19. Main goal: Destroy self-assurance, grow Christ-assurance. I hope it's helpful, comforting, challenging, enlightening.
Pre-order:
.
@GovAndyBeshear
Can you please clarify? Why are you recommending that churches cancel services, but not recommending, among other things, that the KHSAA cancel its basketball tournament this week and weekend? Want to be helpful here, but that's super confusing.
Dear Allergies,
Can you not just give 👏 it 👏 a 👏 rest 👏 for a *single* hot second while we fight off a global pandemic here for a minute? Yea that'd be great thanks.
Sincerely,
All of us
Here are remarks I made this past Sunday on the fall of Roe v. Wade.
"Brothers and sisters, I want to leave no doubt: The death of Roe vs. Wade is something to rejoice over and to praise God for! It is a good, good thing."
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a ruling that overturned its 1973 decision in Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion-on-demand across all fifty states in America. Listen to
@greggilbert
's pastoral address at .
Huge joy to be present to see the birth of a new church--the establishment of a new Embassy of the High King of Heaven--in Twin Falls, Idaho. Congrats to
@church_twin
!
Crossway Books has just published a little paperback Study Guide for my book "What is the Gospel?" Glad to see this out, hope it's helpful to alot of people!
- The language affirming that every unborn child has a fundamental right to life, and calling for a national ban on abortion, has been in the platform for 40 years. Just leave it alone.
- The fall of Roe was a START, not a finish.
Jerry and Lorene Cole have been members of
@ThirdAvenueBapt
for over 70 years. Unless the Lord intervenes, Lorene seems to be in her last weeks before she goes home to Him. They haven't been able to attend church since November. 1/
My new book on how to read the Bible in all its epic glory was released yesterday. Hope it's helpful. And wow, did
@crossway
do an amazing job on that cover!
The Epic Story of the Bible: How to Read and Understand God's Word